Talk:List of female detective characters

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Jessica Fletcher is a writer, not a private investigator; Jane Marple is an OAP. I don't know about most of the others, but as far as I could see, quite a number of them do not really fit into the "private detective" category because they are amateur detectives (which is something different altogether). <KF> 20:52, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

• I suggest we create an article entitled "List of female characters in detective fiction" and move the article there. Alternatively, if we want the focus of the article to remain with female private detectives - we must delete some entries. I contacted the original editer for their opinion. Thoughts? ParticularlyEvil 05:17, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

I am not particularly attached to the list. I would be happy with any cleaning up that anyone wants to do. I was using the term "private detective" loosely--probably too loosely. Logophile 14:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps this list should just be merged with the List of fictional amateur detectives? Then that page could be divided into male and female characters. Tartan 16:48, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Private investigators / Daphne Matthews

I'm assuming that this category is meant to be women who are "private investigators", in which case the red-link for "Daphne Matthews" -- who, as near as I can tell, is a medical examiner in a novel (or novels) by Ridley Pearson -- should be eliminated. Can anyone provide more information about this character? Accounting4Taste 20:41, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Whoops, and thanks GlassFET for cleaning up the list, perhaps this will impel people to flesh it out. Accounting4Taste 20:42, 12 July 2007 (UTC)